Monday, April 28, 2008

A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children.

A 42-year-old woman had told police on Sunday that her father, Josef Fritzl, lured her into the basement of the block where they lived in the town of Amstetten in 1984 and drugged and handcuffed her before imprisoning her.

"(Fritzl) has now said that he locked up his daughter for 24 years and that he alone fathered her seven children and that he locked them up in the cellar," Franz Polzer, head of the criminal investigations unit in the province of Lower Austria, said.

I was watching the news on CNN yesterday. What baffles me even more is that his wife never knew their daughter was down there. I no come understand ooo. Was the dungeon soundproof? Did the wife not ever go downstairs for 24 years? Did the daughter never scream? Did none of the daughter's babies cry @ night? Did the daughter not ever need medical attention (even while pregnant)???

All I can say is sick,sick,icky sick!!! And the mother was upstairs? There must be more to this story. 24 yrs and the mother never heard anything, never saw him take down food, was never curious about the basement? Na wah for oyingbo!!!

All I can say is sick,sick,icky sick!!! And the mother was upstairs? There must be more to this story. 24 yrs and the mother never heard anything, never saw him take down food, was never curious about the basement? Na wah for oyingbo!!!

This was indeed a very disturbing story, almost beyond comprehension. And recently the man gave his first interview and he said some really crazy things like "he planned the cellar for three years before he kidnapped his daughter and put her there", he also claimed he "did it to save her and protect her from the outside world". Horrible stuff.